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5 Centimes Ville de Dison
| Issuer | Ville de Dison (Province de Liège) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 5 Centimes (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress emergency voucher printed in black and red on plain paper stock. The central text panel, set in black, carries the issuing authority's name, conditions of use, and validity clause, while the denomination numeral, issue date, and authorising signatures are rendered in red; a framed cartouche to the right bears the value '5 CENTIMES' in red. A vertical serial number in black is printed against a red geometric underprint in the left margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | VILLE DE DISON (ligne) BON POUR L'ACHAT DE MARCHANDISES D'UN MONTANT DE CINQ CENTIMES VALABLE dans tous les magasins de ravitaillement de la ville (ligne) NEUF mois après la date ci-contre ce bon sera sans aucune valeur. (cadre à droite) 5 CENTIMES (double ligne) Dison le 1er avril 1918 |
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Dison is a small industrial municipality in the Verviers arrondissement, and like hundreds of Belgian communes it issued its own emergency paper during the German occupation of the First World War. The occupying authorities had systematically drained metallic currency from circulation, forcing local governments to fill the gap themselves. These communal notes — known collectively as monnaies de nécessité — were produced under improvised conditions, often on whatever printing equipment the local administration happened to have on hand.
The fact that this note was printed in Dison itself rather than contracted to an established security printer is visible in the typography of most surviving examples.